Microsoft debuted SQL Server 2019 at Ignite, but a more technically detailed picture of the next-gen database platform emerged only later at the PASS Summit.

SQL Server 2019 is still in the early preview stage. There are still many more things to come between now and the time SQL Server 2019 becomes generally available.

Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

With CU5, Microsoft has focused on key capabilities to the SQL Server, along with Big Data Clusters. One of the main improvements is deployment for BDC on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes platform.

The move of Microsoft's 2019 version of its database into Redmond's equivalent of a software care home means only SQL Server 2022 remains in mainstream support, which is due to end on January 11 ...

Microsoft further added R in SQL Server 2016, Python in SQL Server 2017, and lots more in SQL Server 2019, including Java, Ruby, Node.js, and PHP. SQL Server 2019 now supports processing on Spark, ...

SQL Data Discovery & Classification, a tool within Microsoft's SQL Server 2019, could inform attackers which data within a database is labeled sensitive, and which isn't, researchers report ...

Global software house Microsoft is making big data the focus of SQL Server 2019, set for release later this year. A key part is data virtualisation, eliminating complex ETL processes.